The museum
The War Memorial of Korea opened in 1994 to preserve the history of war on the Korean Peninsula and honor military service and casualties. Extensive indoor galleries trace conflicts across centuries, while the outdoor grounds display larger military equipment.
The War Memorial of Korea in Seoul is a broad military-history institution rather than an aviation-only museum, but its outdoor collection is one of the most substantial aircraft groupings in the Air Archive’s mixed-museum scope. Current 2026 photographic evidence documents fighters, transports, helicopters and captured aircraft alongside a USAF-loaned B-52D. The memorial’s museum-wide collection totals roughly 33,000 artifacts, about 10,000 of which are displayed indoors and outdoors; that figure is kept separate from the aircraft records below.
What defines the collection
Korean War history, military aircraft, ground vehicles, weapons and national remembrance.
What to expect
The memorial combines six indoor halls with a large outdoor equipment display. For Air Archive visitors, the outdoor collection spans Korean, American and captured North Korean aircraft, including transports, fighters, helicopters and the B-52D. Because repainting and conservation work can temporarily affect individual airframes, use the dated status on each aircraft record and verify access before a trip centered on a specific machine.
What the museum holds
Approximately 33,000 museum artifacts, with about 10,000 on display across indoor and outdoor exhibitions; this is a museum-wide count, not an aircraft total
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Aérospatiale Alouette III armed familyOn Display · Displayed as 770303; c/n 2278. Published photographic research reports the underlying aircraft may be former 770301.
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois gunship familyOn Display · 12542
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois gunship familyOn Display · 16182
- Grumman S2F TrackerOn Display · Current marking 6595; older published identities conflict, so M038 does not infer an earlier serial from the marking alone · 6595
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIOn Display · ROKAF marking 50-732 · 65-0732
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIOn Display · display marking AF40-766 / code GG · 64-0766
- North American F-86 SabreOn Display · 18-502
- Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger II familyOn Display · ROKAF FA-046 / 89046 · 89-046
- Boeing B-52 StratofortressRestoration · USAF loan serial 55-0105; current display marking photographed as 55-105 / 50-1512 · 55-0105
- Antonov An-2 (131)On Display · North Korean Air Force display · 131
- Curtiss C-46D Commando (10-541)On Display · ROKAF marking 0-10541 · 10-541
- Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (51-7996)On Display · Former Republic of China Air Force 3199; photographed with USAF-derived markings · 51-7996
- Fairchild C-123J Provider (64389)On Display · ROKAF marking 10-389 · 64389
- Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (35129)On Display · 35129
Open full museum-listed inventory (17 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Aérospatiale Alouette III armed family Aerospatiale SA-319B Alouette III (display marking 770303; identity disputed) | On Display | 2278 |
| Antonov An-2 (131) | On Display | 131 |
| Bell UH-1 Iroquois gunship family Bell UH-1B Iroquois (12542) | On Display | 12542 · 693 |
| Bell UH-1 Iroquois gunship family Bell UH-1H Iroquois (16182) | On Display | 16182 · 10841 |
| Curtiss C-46D Commando (10-541) | On Display | 10-541 · 22364 |
| Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (51-7996) | On Display | 51-7996 · 10739 |
| Fairchild C-123J Provider (64389) | On Display | 64389 · 20273 |
| Grumman S2F Tracker Grumman S-2A Tracker (display marking 6595) | On Display | 6595 · 504 |
| Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (35129) | On Display | 35129 · 580-8468 |
| McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom II (65-0732) | On Display | 65-0732 · 1789 |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-500MD (780062) | On Display | 780062 · 0329D |
| McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II McDonnell F-4C Phantom II (64-0766) | On Display | 64-0766 · 1063 |
| North American F-86 Sabre North American F-86D Sabre (18-502) | On Display | 18-502 · 173-635 |
| Northrop F-5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger II family Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter (89-046) | On Display | 89-046 · N6412 |
| Shenyang J-6 (207) | On Display | 207 · 6-6207 |
| Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Boeing B-52D Stratofortress (USAF 55-0105; displayed as 55-105) | Restoration | 55-0105 · 17221 |
| Sikorsky H-5H (49-2007) | Unknown | 49-2007 |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.